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What do you typically recommend when you come across this type of installation?
Receptacle above baseboard heating. This one is a little different in that it's actually blocked as well. Vince Santos
StepByStep Home Services LC (734) 748-9584 Providing Home Inspection Services to Southeast Michigan ITA Trained and Certified |
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Repair by a qualified electrician....nice picture Vince
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bdoles2 is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
As a minimum I'd recommend removal of the outlets, to be replaced with a blank double gang cover. This will eliminate even the thought of plugging in something.
And as James states, to be done by a licensed electrician. |
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Of course the half covered receptacles are a problem worth noting. You can argue with intelligent people but to argue with a mush head is like trying to grab fog-Thomas Sowell |
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There should be no outlet above a heater
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The baseboard heat in this area was electric.
Vince Santos
StepByStep Home Services LC (734) 748-9584 Providing Home Inspection Services to Southeast Michigan ITA Trained and Certified |
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Then removal is the only option.
This does not apply to baseboard hot water systems. You can argue with intelligent people but to argue with a mush head is like trying to grab fog-Thomas Sowell |
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Marc D. Shunk is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
You could actually enhance the nature of the hazard if you step into recommending how the hazard is to be remediated. If this receptacle is installed to satisfy spacing rules, summary elimination of the receptacle is not the fix for the hazard. Removing the receptacle and installing two more, each at the outboard ends of the heater, is more likely the fix the electrician will have to do.
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Has is ever been code to have electrical outlets above electric baseboard? You can argue with intelligent people but to argue with a mush head is like trying to grab fog-Thomas Sowell |
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Marc D. Shunk is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
No, it's never been in the code, per se - save for 110.3(B) which is a general rule that manufacturer's rules be followed. All electric baseboard heaters have instructions that forbid a receptacle over them. Even if they didn't, it's at least a stupid place for a receptacle. You're allowed to call out stupid things.
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Marc D. Shunk is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Was it the spacing rules that have you mixed up, maybe?
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I am very familiar with the spacing rules.
The heater was likely installed after construction in an unacceptable manner. I'd rather have no receptacle there and violate the spacing rule than have the fire hazard of a cord draped over the heater. Either way it needs to be called out. Remove one or the other. You can argue with intelligent people but to argue with a mush head is like trying to grab fog-Thomas Sowell |
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Christopher Currins Certified, Licensed Proudly serving the St.Louis Metro St. Charles, St. Peters, Maryland Heights, O'Fallon, Florrisant, MO Home Inspector BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED, FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE "LIGHT"!
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Marc D. Shunk is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
I'm puzzled why you'd recommend any particular repair at all. Wouldn't the more prudent approach be to simply point out that it's being there is a hazard, and recommend an electrician correct it? Whether the electrician simply blanks it off or whether he blanks it off and installs another 1 or 2 outside of the heater's length should be up to someone besides the home inspector. Sorry, but I get a little cranked up when a home inspector attempts to tell the homeowner or buyer how I ought to effect the repair.
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And please get off your high horse. You can argue with intelligent people but to argue with a mush head is like trying to grab fog-Thomas Sowell |
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